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Title: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: stephaniec on January 15, 2015, 10:49:57 PM
Post by: stephaniec on January 15, 2015, 10:49:57 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sister-monica/a-catholic-sisters-minist_b_6481700.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender
Huffington Post/by Sister Monica 1/15/2015
' I had just come out of Sunday mass and my phone rang. " Sister ' Monica', my name is ' Brad ' I don't know if you remember me, but I met you a couple of weeks ago at the transgender support group. "
Huffington Post/by Sister Monica 1/15/2015
' I had just come out of Sunday mass and my phone rang. " Sister ' Monica', my name is ' Brad ' I don't know if you remember me, but I met you a couple of weeks ago at the transgender support group. "
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: traci_k on January 16, 2015, 10:40:41 AM
Post by: traci_k on January 16, 2015, 10:40:41 AM
Great find Stephanie. That was a ray of sunshine.
Hugs,
Hugs,
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: LoriLorenz on January 16, 2015, 10:40:59 PM
Post by: LoriLorenz on January 16, 2015, 10:40:59 PM
How much I would love to meet or contact Sister "Monica" I cannot say...
Thank you for the article! Such hope for the future this gives me.
Thank you for the article! Such hope for the future this gives me.
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: Wynternight on January 16, 2015, 11:45:36 PM
Post by: Wynternight on January 16, 2015, 11:45:36 PM
That's wonderful. She sounds like a treasure.
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: LoriLorenz on January 16, 2015, 11:54:02 PM
Post by: LoriLorenz on January 16, 2015, 11:54:02 PM
BTW, at the bottom of the huffpost article is a link to more stuff on Sr. Monica and her ministry. If you ARE interested, there's even a 37 page PDF to download! (I know what my bedtime reading shall be tonight.)
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: stephaniec on January 18, 2015, 07:58:08 PM
Post by: stephaniec on January 18, 2015, 07:58:08 PM
thanks for sharing
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: Lady Smith on April 10, 2015, 11:48:28 PM
Post by: Lady Smith on April 10, 2015, 11:48:28 PM
QuoteSister Monica:
"What gives glory to God is for us to be the person God made us to be. When we are trying to live as honestly as we can our lives gives praise to God."
Amen Sister, Amen!
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: Lady Smith on April 11, 2015, 02:51:33 AM
Post by: Lady Smith on April 11, 2015, 02:51:33 AM
A nun's secret ministry brings hope to the transgender community
http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/transgender-and-catholic.html (http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/transgender-and-catholic.html)
Aljazeera America.
by Nathan Schneider @nathanairplane March 2, 2014
Nathan Schneider explores the unresolved challenge of transgender identity for the Catholic Church and one woman's courageous, life-saving response.
"Maureen Osborne's mind started to wander. This was 2001, at a conference of the organization now called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which took place that year in Galveston, Texas. Several hundred people filled the room. Another panel, another question-and-answer period. Osborne is a Philadelphia-based psychologist, and at the time more and more of her therapy practice was focusing on patients struggling with gender identity. There was a lot to take in at these panels, not all of it useful. And then something caught her attention.
"I heard, without looking or seeing, a woman's voice," she remembers. "She was publicly apologizing to all the transgender people in the world for the damage done to them by the Catholic Church." Though not trans, Osborne had grown up Catholic and felt damaged by the church herself.
Osborne's head turned. At the microphone where people were asking questions, there was a small woman with a determined posture, prominent cheekbones and close-cropped dark hair beginning to gray. Her intonation betrayed a drawl. She went on to say that she was a nun, and had begun ministering in the trans community and had come to the conference to learn how to be better at it. There was a standing ovation.
"I was speechless," Osborne says."
http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/transgender-and-catholic.html (http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/transgender-and-catholic.html)
Aljazeera America.
by Nathan Schneider @nathanairplane March 2, 2014
Nathan Schneider explores the unresolved challenge of transgender identity for the Catholic Church and one woman's courageous, life-saving response.
"Maureen Osborne's mind started to wander. This was 2001, at a conference of the organization now called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which took place that year in Galveston, Texas. Several hundred people filled the room. Another panel, another question-and-answer period. Osborne is a Philadelphia-based psychologist, and at the time more and more of her therapy practice was focusing on patients struggling with gender identity. There was a lot to take in at these panels, not all of it useful. And then something caught her attention.
"I heard, without looking or seeing, a woman's voice," she remembers. "She was publicly apologizing to all the transgender people in the world for the damage done to them by the Catholic Church." Though not trans, Osborne had grown up Catholic and felt damaged by the church herself.
Osborne's head turned. At the microphone where people were asking questions, there was a small woman with a determined posture, prominent cheekbones and close-cropped dark hair beginning to gray. Her intonation betrayed a drawl. She went on to say that she was a nun, and had begun ministering in the trans community and had come to the conference to learn how to be better at it. There was a standing ovation.
"I was speechless," Osborne says."
Title: Re: A catholic sister's ministry in the transgender community
Post by: sunshine on July 11, 2015, 12:33:38 PM
Post by: sunshine on July 11, 2015, 12:33:38 PM
I was very blessed to meet Sister Monica last year and work with her by email for a few years prior to that. She is a real blessing to transgender catholics and the church even as it forces her to work in secret. If you want to get in touch with her send me your contact information and I can forward it to her.
Be blessed on your journey,
Hilary
Be blessed on your journey,
Hilary